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Derren Brown Trick Explained

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 11:23:37 -0700

(28 votes - 3 comments - 2509 views)
An explanation of a Derren Brown trick where he takes someones watch and wallet, which can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZohpDS2aMc

Fox News On The Netherlands

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:16:13 -0700

(23 votes - 34 comments - 626 views)
A Fox Noise view on The Netherlands. It's bad enought they ruin the view on America, but they should keep their oil-and-blood-smeared paws off of Holland!! Anyways, they get their wish, day by day our country is more and more like America. So they should gloat, not lie.

Sex Drugs and Democracy: The Netherlands

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:46:53 -0700

(22 votes - 3 comments - 972 views)
A documentary about The Netherlands, and the ways in which it deals with personal liberties. It was made in 1994. I'm ashamed to say by now we are going the American way, meaning downhill regarding freedoms. I grew up with these liberties, and it is a shame to see our country going back to the 50's: Christian Conservativism.

Henry Rollins - Dutch TV Interview - 1995

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:08:16 -0700

(17 votes - 0 comments - 528 views)
Henry Rollins in 1995 in a dutch production. He got mellow through the years. Half a minute less than 10 minutes.

Chomsky & Trivers discuss deception

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 03:26:50 -0700

(22 votes - 5 comments - 546 views)
Chomsky and Trivers (an evolutionary biologist) discuss the workings of deception and self-deception. One of the few interviews with Chomsky in which he links his two main interests: politics and linguistics.

Everything Is Miscellaneous

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 12:09:35 -0700

(14 votes - 1 comment - 436 views)
A very entertaining lecture by David Weinberger on the ordering of information, and the way internet has made new ordering paradigms possible. Other keywords than the ones given above would be: Dewey, Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Paris Hilton, segregation, categories, Google, wikipedia, librarians, planets, trees, robins, data, metadata, experts, users, simplicity, complexity, ..., ...

Victim Of The Brain

cheshirepuss (http://www.videosift.com/member/cheshirepuss) — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:00:11 -0700

(12 votes - 4 comments - 422 views)
Douglas Hofstadter and Dan Dennett in a dutch production. The acting is hammy, and it is pretty aged, but it inspired me as a kid to study AI in later life. Read their book 'The Mind's I', for a more in depth discussion of the topics brought up here.